Edie Sedgwick Quotes

I'm just selfish. I have to be for what I do.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them.

Man is essentially a selfish creature. The differences in the degree with which this developed are infinite.

A lot of comedians are selfish.

There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense.

I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.

I think that in today's world, by nature, we are all self-centered. And that often leads to selfishness.

Selfishness is one of the more common faces of pride. 'How everything affects me' is the center of all that matters - self-conceit, self-pity, worldly self-fulfillment, self-gratification, and self-seeking.

Selfishness is the greatest curse of the human race.

If you are passionate only about yourself -that is the road to disaster.

You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.

I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something.

We're not all nice, and there are a lot of levels of ambition and niceness.

People who take more than their share usually feel an inflated sense of entitlement.

Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

I'm selfish.

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

It's kind of selfish to say that you're only going to fight for a victory that you will live to see.

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

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